First they came for me. Like, right away. I tried saying "Don't you have some trade unionists or gypsies or something to deal with?", I tried giving them names, but they weren't interested.
Nostalgia and early Y2K vibes hard carry GTA 3, and I say that with love. Every flaw thats tolerable in the early game is amplified as soon as you get to Staunton, and almost everything after meeting Donald Love is anti-game design.
wendy's cashier: will that be all?
me: i think so. we just close our eyes for the last time and we're gone. but it doesn't have to be sad. it's like before you were born. we don't miss those who haven't happened yet. we don't feel their absence
wendy's cashier: mothers do. i do
I reread Wizard's First Rule and while I love that there's a map I hate that there's no sense of scale and it only shows the towns the characters actually visit so it feels tiny and depopulated
One of the biggest problems in House of the Dragon is not even the writing.
It’s that the show accidentally makes Westeros feel tiny.
Characters hop between Dragonstone, King’s Landing, Harrenhal and Winterfell like they’re neighboring towns.
But in reality, Westeros is basically a continent.
Why does the show make the world feel so small?
My grandmother has lived in the same rent-controlled apartment since 1974.
Every Friday, she walks to the corner bodega to buy one loaf of rye bread...
...and a half-gallon of skim milk.
Last month, the bodega closed.
She spent three days sitting by her window...
Refusing to eat.
I thought she was just being stubborn about her routine.
She’s eighty-seven.
Old people get set in their ways.
I offered to drive her to the large supermarket two miles away.
She got angry.
Told me I didn't understand anything.
Then locked her door....